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Marit
Sæther

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63926520

E-post:
ullensaker@ullensaker.kirkene.net

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Kopperud

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63926520

Ullensaker kirke

Ullensaker kirke

Ullensaker kirke located in Ullensaker parish in Øvre Romerike rural deanery. The building material is mur and was built in 1958. The church is of
long plan
and 650 number of seats.
The church has conservation status listed.
Architect: Arnstein Arneberg/Solemslie.

1900s

During the course of the 20th century, churches changed from being Sunday churches to multi-use buildings and from expressing solemn national movements such as Art Nouveau and Neo Baroque to international modernism in concrete, often with untraditional forms and functions.

At the beginning of the century, churches mainly kept their traditional form and function, although the architecture reflected changing styles. After the First World War, this meant Neo Baroque and Neoclassicism. The simplified forms of functionalism arrived in the 1930s, and churches were increasingly inspired by international liturgical and architectural movements.

After the destruction of the Second World War, the first churches experimented with the traditional long-church design, but built of reinforced concrete, as in Bodø (1956) and Molde (1957). The bonds of tradition were soon loosened however, creating completely new liturgical spaces and forms, as in Kristiansund (1964) and Tromsdalen (1965).

New parish activities evolved during the 1950s, bringing a need for more different types of buildings. Partly inspired by the small church movement, working churches now came into their own, with offices, meeting rooms and activity venues in addition to the church interior itself. It became common to design churches with folding walls, to allow the nave to be attached to adjoining rooms.

These developments led to the liturgical spaces representing a steadily decreasing proportion of the total building. The floor plan of the church interior was often rectangular or fan-shaped, to bring churchgoers closer together, but also closer to the altar and raised chancel, as the liturgical focal point of the space. Function became more important than style and the artistic expression became more abstract.

Towards the end of the century, the church interior began to regain a more sacred character, without the building losing its functional diversity.

More than 600 new churches were built during the 20th century. Masonry and especially reinforced concrete became increasingly dominant as building materials, and wooden churches were no longer built in the traditional ways, but with modern techniques such as timber frame and laminated wood. As many as two thirds of the post-war churches are of masonry.